Former Chattanooga police officer Desmond Logan claimed he was unaware of any alleged efforts by two former high-ranking police officers to suppress an accusation that Logan raped a woman in 2015, according to deposition excerpts filed in federal court Wednesday.
The Hamilton County Election Commission has rejected a petition by a coalition of activist organizations after the groups came up short on collecting enough valid signatures to put legislation for a new Chattanooga police oversight board on the March 2021 ballot.
The suspect in a fatal shooting earlier this month at a hotel in Hixson had accused the victim of bugging his phone before shooting him, according to Hamilton County court records.
Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond says he supports Governor Bill Lee's new executive order restricting public indoor gatherings to no more than 10 people.
Tenth Judicial District Attorney General Steve Crump's office has been disqualified from any involvement in the appeal of a second-degree murder conviction that Crump is accused of securing under threat of blackmail.
A majority of Silverdale Detention Center employees have been seen either not wearing a mask at all or only below the chin, and most inmates did not have masks, according to court testimony on Friday from two lawyers who recently visited their clients.
A Hamilton County Criminal Court judge on Tuesday declined to reduce the $3 million bond for a man accused of shaking his 4-week-old daughter to death.
A Hamilton County Criminal Court judge on Tuesday revoked the bond for a man accused of leading police on a high-speed chase through Brainerd-area neighborhoods last week after allegedly killing another man while out on bond in a 2017 homicide.
Hamilton County General Sessions court's criminal division will be closed as of Dec. 18 and will hear only specific in-custody cases due to court personnel testing positive for COVID-19, according to a news release.
The owner of one of East Tennessee's largest bail bonding companies has been arrested in an undercover sting operation for allegedly accepting an offer of sex from an officer posing as a 17-year-old girl.
